from msnbc s headquarters here in new york. alex witt reports. we begin with breaking news in texas. a man hunt intensifying at this hour for a gunman suspected of carrying out a deadly mass shooting against his neighbors. five people, including an eight-year-old were killed overnight in a home in cleveland. that is a city just north of houston. according to priscilla thompson, who is on the scene for us there. priscilla, welcome, what are you learning at this tragic hour? yeah,, alex police are now naming this murder in this case. identifying him as 38-year-old, francisco or up hazza. police say he is a mexican national and is being charged with five counts of murder and police say he is two miles from here and have established a perimeter and are using dogs and officers on horseback and drones that are working to track him in order to locate him. the sheriff is saying that he hopes to have the suspect in custody within the next couple of oropeza hours, and this informatio
shooting, yet again, that left five people dead including an eight-year-old child. we are keeping an eye on breaking weather news as well, around the country including the growing flooding threat along the mississippi river. plus, mike pence grilled, the latest on the hours he spent before the special counsel s grand jury. and the woman accusing donald trump of sexual assault defamation stands up to the former president s lawyers in a blistering cross examination. plus, this. when i have had friends who have taken their lives because of these bills. i have fielded calls from families in montana. including one family who s trans teenager attempted to take her life while watching a hearing on one of the anti-trans bills. so when i rose up and said there is blood on your hands, i was not being hyperbolic. i was speaking to the real consequences of the votes that we as legislators take in this body. i will be joined by montana state representative, is that we zephyr, after he
from msnbc s headquarters here in new york. alex witt reports. we begin with breaking news in texas. a man hunt intensifying at this hour for a gunman suspected of carrying out a deadly mass shooting against his neighbors. five people, including an eight-year-old were killed overnight in a home in cleveland. that is a city just north of houston. according to priscilla thompson, who is on the scene for us there. priscilla, welcome, what are you learning at this tragic hour? yeah,, alex police are now naming this murder in this case. identifying him as 38-year-old, francisco or up hazza. police say he is a mexican national and is being charged with five counts of murder and police say he is two miles from here and have established a perimeter and are using dogs
we as legislators take in this body. i will be joined by montana state representative, is that we zephyr, after her principal stand in favor of trans right got her booted from the legislature. her reaction to the, bill but she fought now becoming a law. a conversation you do not want to. miss we start with the breaking news. as we speak, authorities in cleveland, texas, they are trying to find the man on your screen. now his name is francisco oral pisa. police suspect him of carrying out a deadly mass shooting against his neighbors which claimed the lives of five people including eight-year-old child. we want to get right to nbc s priscilla thompson who is following this for us on texas. walk us through the suspect and how this all unfolded. we well, yasmin, an incredibly devastating scene here. there s a few moments ago someone who was very emotional walked up and was assured behind the crime scene tape
shooting an ar-15, was told to quiet down because the shooter because a child was sleeping. and chaos ensued, five people are now dead, and eight year old child died at the hospital just a grizzly awful scene in cleveland, texas certainly a scene that the sheriff s department is keeping their eyes focused on. they are apprehending the suspect there, his name is francisco or a pays a. we will get more updates over the next 90 minutes. we want to talk about a significant development this week. after former vice president, mike pence, testified for about seven hours on thursday under oath, before the january six grand jury. it came just hours after u.s. appeals court tonight former president trump s emergency attempts. to block pence from testifying. joining me now is nbc, garrett who has more on this. give us more of a sense, gary, of what we re learning about pence s testimony. yasmin, with investigations